Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

A serene space tucked amid the skyscrapers of Hong Kong's bustling financial district.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.